Word: importantally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The industry's fortunes first flagged in 1984, when many corporate customers who had bought PCs began to find they were too difficult to use and too limited in their applications to be practical. Millions of the machines had become little more than expensive paperweights. But over the past year...
It would not be the first time that Wilson, who is chairman of the sociology department at the University of Chicago, had set the fur flying. Almost a decade ago his first study of the underclass, The Declining Significance of Race, outraged militant black scholars by claiming that the victories...
Instead, he advocates "programs to which the more advantaged groups of all races can positively relate." Most important is to stimulate the national economy so there is greater demand for new workers. He would replace "means- tested" programs -- like welfare -- aimed at the black poor with programs for job training...
Will the same now be said of Klaus Barbie, who was less important but whose work was no less cruel? Barbie's trial is bound to attract worldwide attention. People are already saying this will be the last great courtroom drama to result from the Holocaust. They may be right...
No, Lyons will not provide a restaging of the Eichmann trial. Barbie did not make policy. He was only a regional executioner, a local hangman -- he merely participated, did what he was told. His operations only extended to Lyons and its surroundings. Yet if Klaus Barbie was not "important," his...